Peekskill head coach Lou Panzanaro said balancing his coaching and AD duties has become too much, and he will step down as coach after this season.

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Lou Panzanaro began to contemplate retirement five or six years ago, back when he first wondered if his message to players still crossed an age gap widening into a canyon.

Be it then or at each moment of doubt since, Panzanaro's dad, Lou Sr. - a Peekskill star from way back in the 1930s and still a sideline fixture at games - had asked his son to stay. This time the answer changed.

"My father just turned 99," said the younger Panzanaro, now 67 himself. "At 93 he said, 'Can you give me two more years?' So when I told him this year, he said again, 'Can you give me one more year?' I said, 'No, not this time.' " ...